Endangered Species Restoration Technology
Restoration/Multiplication Business for Endangered Jeju Black Cattle

Research institute in charge of the industrialization aspect of the “Development and Industrialization of Jeju Black Cattle Mass Multiplication” assignment overseen by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. We aim to protect Jeju Black Cattle, an endangered natural monument, from extinction by cloning and proliferating genetically superior specimens through the implementation of cloning/reproduction, ultra-rapid freezing of eggs and fertilized eggs, somatic cell nuclear substitution cloning, and fertilized egg culture technologies.

  • Successful production of endangered Jeju Black Cattle bull cloned Animal ‘Heuk Young-Dolee’
  • Production of cloned animal ‘Heuk Woo-Sunee’ by ultra rapid frozen-thawed technique
    (3-step: vitrifcation, one-step thawing and direct transfer)